-Kiley- wrote:I dust them with calcium before putting them in. ^^
I do have a cricket house but it's awkward to get in and out..
We're in the process of moving so I can't get anything really elaborate at the moment..I may look into it after we relocate.
On a side note..I was talking to this man at the petstore while buying crickets and mealworms..He bought his young son two leopard geckos at different times. He said they both died..and one, the son held it by the tail and it fell off..I felt bad for the geckos...I gave him a talk about proper care. XD
I understand. After you get settled into your new place though, I recommend at least getting a large critter keeper to house a weeks supply at a time. In those small numbers they should be fine in a critter keeper. Mango came with one of those cricket critter keepers that have the black tubes. Neat design, but It was a small one, so not really suitable for keeping crickets alive, but a larger one might work for a small amount of crickets. I'm sure you could even duplicate the design on a large bin with some piping if you had the time.
That's quite sad. I hate when parents give children animals, and then don't supervise them, or expect the children to do everything. More than half the ads(lol, the ones that aren't scams or against the ToS) on sites like craigslist tend to be "bought such-and-such pet for my child, but they lost interest in a week, and I don't want to take care of it." Hello?! Of course a little child isn't going to be able to take care of it. In my experience, forcing young children to look after animals actually makes them loose interest faster. Yes, they will eventually need to learn responsibility, but wait until they are older, and don't use an animal. This is all assuming the animal doesn't die like in the situation the man you talked to had. Thank you for saying something to him! Sometimes I''m not brave enough to confront a person like that, because people can get pretty darn defensive if you try to tell them it was their fault. I try my hardest to let them know they are doing something wrong without outright saying it, and I've had a lot of success that way. I hope the man didn't buy any more geckos, or if her did, then I hope he supervises his children and teaches them to have a little more respect for animals.
